DREAM BABY. [Paperback]

Bruce. McAllister (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: New York: Tor, (1989)
• ASIN: B000OTU886
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Bruce McAllister is known primarily for his literary fiction and fantasy, science fiction and thriller fiction, which he's been publishing professionally since he was sixteen. He was born in 1946 in Baltimore, MD, to a peripatetic Navy family with an Annapolis-graduate father who served with NATO during the Cold War and an underdog-championing anthropologist/archeologist mother whose specialties were Early Man and Native American studies. As children, he and his brother Jack lived in Florida, Washington D.C., California and Italy. From l974 to l997 he taught at the University of Redlands in southern California, where he helped establish and direct writing programs. Since l998 he has worked as a writing coach and book and screenplay consultant. His short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies, national magazines, original anthologies, "year's best" anthologies and college readers; won awards from Glimmer Train magazine and the National Endowment for the Arts; and been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and New Letters awards. His non-fiction articles on sports, popular science and writing have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He has three wonderful children--Annie, Ben and Elizabeth--and lives in Costa Mesa, California, with his wife, choreographer Amelie Hunter.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unusually well written book, January 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dream Baby (Paperback)

This book was a real gem to find. Not only is it well written, the characters spring to life and you find yourself dreading the final outcome (to which there are passing references throughout the story). The denouement, when it arrives, is well worth the wait, and totally unexpected. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stories about the paranormal and the Viet Nam War. I have since re-read the book 4 times.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Baby, January 7, 2011

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KBreader - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dream Baby (Paperback)

Dream Baby is based on fifteen years of research, interviews with two hundred veterans of three American wars who reported paranormal experiences that kept them alive, and actual classified contingency plans to end the war in Vietnam that have still not been made public.

In this acclaimed classic novel of ESP in war--praised by reviewers and readers alike as both a riveting science fiction thriller and one of the finest chronicles of the Vietnam War--young Army Nurse Mary Damico dreams the deaths of soldiers before they happen, but cannot save them. Only when she is recruited for a secret unit of other "esp talents"--one run by a rogue CIA psychiatrist who may be a "talent" himself--can she become the psychic commando she needs to be to stop the psychiatrist's insanity and save those she has come to love.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!, March 22, 2000

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Dane L. Carlson (Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dream Baby (Mass Market Paperback)

Bruce, where are you? This book was so cool. A moody, dark journey through Vietnam. Very surrealistic. I have kept hoping this author would show up with another book, but nothing. A must read in my opinion.